Education of the republic of uzbekistan termez state university department of english language and literature

Rhyming games

Play rhyming games to teach about the patterns in words. Try the following, for example, for words in the same family as the word black:

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  Introduce a poem or rhyming story such as Miss Mary Mack
  
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  Encourage the child to point out words in books that have a similar spelling pattern as in black.
  
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  Help the child think of other words that have this pattern. You may have to write a few words for him or her:
  
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  sack
  pack
  stack
  

Then have the child read the whole word and underline the repeated part of the word, "ack."

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  Using magnetic letters or Scrabble pieces, form a word with the "ack" pattern. Ask the student to change the first letter of the word (for examples' in sack) to make a new word, such as pack. You should be sure to provide a limited number of letters (two or three at first) for the child to choose from. 
  
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  Remember to choose a word pattern that is useful and important to the student and that relates to something that he or she has read or will read. If possible, start with a word he or she already knows in the word family. After reading a book about being sad, for example, start with the word "cry" and then follow with "fry", "try", and "wry".
  
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  Remember to review the word families you've chosen to work on periodically by playing some of the other games described above.
  
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  Be sure to give the student a chance to go back to a book, poem, or other texts where he or she can apply this new reading skill. Poems, nursery rhymes, and jump rope jingles are a great resource for early readers.